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Heather Grabbe

Bruegel Senior Fellow

Heather Grabbe is a Senior Fellow at Bruegel and a Visiting Professor at University College London and KU Leuven. Her research focuses on the political economy of the European Green Deal and how the climate transition will change the EU’s international relationships and external policies. She was previously Director of the Open Society European Policy Institute in Brussels, Deputy Director of the Centre for European Reform and senior advisor on the Balkans and Turkey to then European Commissioner Olli Rehn.

Disclosure of interests

Declaration of interests 2024

Declaration of interests 2023

Featured work

Podcast

Vote, protect, prepare: 2024 in review

Europe’s tumultuous year of leadership change, climate challenge and the rise of industrial policy

Rebecca Christie, Heather Grabbe, André Sapir and Jeromin Zettelmeyer
Podcast

The US voted - what now?

A special live episode of the Sound of Economics podcast on the outcome of the US elections and where to go from here

Rebecca Christie, Heather Grabbe, Fiona M. Scott Morton and Guntram B. Wolff
Podcast

A year in review

As 2023 closes, we look back at some of the most important and interesting economic policy developments from Europe and the world.

Rebecca Christie, Heather Grabbe, Jean Pisani-Ferry, Fiona M. Scott Morton and Jeromin Zettelmeyer